Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00375)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "christinaleestemaker" 
<christinaleestemaker@y...> wrote:
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> I can say something: Before one reaches the rose he have to conquer 
> the thorns.
> Maybe that is an answer on the fear you see.
> Christina.
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "alden_parent" 
<alden_parent@y...> 
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> > Dear friends,
> > Where is the wisdom in that ?
> > As a rose is a rose is a rose, so does fear beget fear
> > beget fear. 
> > " All we have to peace, is peace itself. "
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> > What does H.P.B. say on fear? Anyone!
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> > Peace to all,
> > in the new year,
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> > Alden
Alden,
Fear comes for want of knowledge regarding to nature of things,
the rose is easly reached by one who knowing the nature of the
stem then handles it with respect. 
We all face the same blind, Know one can no something for another,
We must act making the best choices we can and then selfcorrect, when
we see for ourself there is a need.
Good Luck in the New Year.

Below are some parts of Quotes, From HPBs "Voice of the Silence" that
speak about fear.


Self-Knowledge is of loving deeds the child.
Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no 
success. Fix thy Soul's gaze upon the star whose ray thou art,(1)the 
flaming star that shines within the lightless depths of ever-being, 
the boundless fields of the Unknown. 
Have perseverance as one who doth for evermore endure. Thy shadows 
live and vanish;(2) that which in thee shall live for ever, that 
which in thee knows, for it is knowledge,(3) is not of fleeing life: 
it is the man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall 
never strike.

To perish doomed is he, who out of fear of Mara refrains from helping 
man, lest he should act for Self. The pilgrim who would cool his 
weary limbs in running waters, yet dares not plunge for terror of the 
stream, risks to succumb from heat. Inaction based on selfish fear 
can bear but evil fruit.

The Selfish devotee lives to no purpose. The man who does not go 
through his appointed work in life—has lived in vain.

Fear, O disciple, kills the will and stays all action. If lacking in 
the Shila virtue,—the pilgrim trips, and Karmic pebbles bruise his 
feet along the rocky path.

Beware of trembling. 'Neath the breath of fear the key of Kshanti 
rusty grows: the rusty key refuseth to unlock.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The 
path that leadeth on, is lighted by one fire—the light of daring, 
burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. 
The more he fears, the more that light shall pale—and that alone can 
guide.